Julian Barnes - A Feeling for an End

Julian Barnes' latest novel, Sense of an End, begins with a striking unfolding of the "examination of life through reminiscence" theme, which has become an increasingly dominant element of Barnes' authorship, as seen in several previous works of the author. The main protagonist of the story, Tony Webster, remembers some events he experienced forty years ago and arranges them in a random order in his mind. However, this act of remembering, which seems ordinary at first, turns into a ruthless search for identity, in which the protagonist constantly questions his life and eventually comes to extremely pessimistic conclusions about his own personality, when Tony Webster learns that he has been left for a day.